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Quiz Bowl Practice - Geography (physical)
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A list of world geography (world's biggest lake and that sort of thing, famous deserts, etc), specifically those likely to come up in high school Quiz Bowl...or that they mentioned on Jeopardy. :P
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Chang Jiang
Longest river in Asia (3rd longest in world)
Chile
Location of the Atacama Desert
Sea of Galilee
Lowest freshwater lake in the world, largest in Israel
Jordan River
World's lowest river, arises from 3 springs near Mount Harmon; major tributaries include the Yarmouk and Jabbok
fjord
The only "true" one on the U.S. Atlantic coast is Somes Sound (Maine), the longest one in the world is Greenland's Scoresby Sund, the deepest one is found in Skelton Inlet in Antarctica (give term)
Seine
Famous river that flows through Paris (hint: they mention it in an Abba song...go listen to "Our Last Summer")
Yangtze-Kiang
River from Tibetan Plateu into China Sea
Volga
River from Valdia Plateau (Moscow) to Caspian Sea
Andes
South America's highest mountain range
Hudson Bay
World's Largest Bay
Gulf of Mexico
World's Largest Gulf
Mariana Trench (in the Pacific)
Deepest Part of the Ocean
Salto Angel
World's Highest Waterfall (it's in Venezuela)
Pacific
World's Largest Ocean
Atacama Desert
World's Driest Desert (it's in Chile)
South China Sea
World's Largest Sea
Sahara
World's Largest Desert
Amazon
World's Largest River (NOT the longest - that is the Nile)
Krakatoa
1883 volcano whose explosion put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that the sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost 2 years.
Lake Mead
Name of the artificial lake created in 1935 by the operation of the Hoover Dam.
Siachen
World's largest glacier (non-Polar regions) Note: Indo-Pak border
Himalayas
Asian mountain range that hosts Mount Everest, and five other of the 14 highest peaks in the world.
Atlas Mountains
Going from Morocco to Tunisia - North African mountain range
Boulder Dam
Name of the Hoover Dam from 1935 to 1947
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